King Kong Stuck on Main Menu

Hey everyone!

I bought 8 Gamecube games a few days ago, one of them being Peter Jackson's King Kong—one of my childhood's favourites. 7 of the 8 games works perfectly fine, but sadly King Kong does not.

It'll load the game fine, and get to the main menu screen where you select the language you want to play in. Here's where the issue lies: it's stuck there, completely frozen. It won't let me select anything, won't let me move up and down, and I left it on the screen for about 15 minutes to allow it to somehow "un-stick" but it sadly doesn't.

The disk is very clean, I cleaned it twice and it does the same issue.

Would anyone know how to fix this? Anyone have similar issues with other games?